false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184204212m/1492278.jpg 1492278 2 <P>The Virtual Embodied is intended to inform and provoke. It juxtaposes cutting-edge theories, polemics, and creative practices to uncover ethical, aesthetic and ecological implications of why, how and in particular where, human actions, observations and insights take place. It refuses simply to hold a euphoric view of technology yet equally resists the apocalyptic scorn which surrounds the new. The contributors use a range of interdisciplinary strategies to point to a re-worked aesthetic for embodying knowledge and explore such areas as colonialism and the internet, the virtual unconscious in electronic systems, theatre as a virtual space, 'information' and the capitalist society, ecstatic bodies and the rave scene, desire and the 'virtual comfort' zone. In The Virtual Embodied many of the authors, artists, performers and designers apply their interdisciplinary passions to questions of embodied knowledge and virtual space.</P> 1483557 18 9 1998 The Virtual Embodied: Presence/Practice/Technology total:1|3:1| 1 3 1 1 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 08:33:17 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 21:30:06 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1492278